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    Window Protection While Transporting

    I had ours made at a local upholstery shop using heavy tarp material, app. 3' x 5' with grommets on the corners & midpoints, edges doubled up & sewn. We use bungees to tie them on, ok if it's an excavator with cab guarding, forestry cabs with lexan are a pain, nothing to tie to. I think...
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    RGN Deck width for excavators?

    I'm in BC, so all my trailers are 9'6" to 10'6" wide with the exception of one 8'6" cantilever deck with swingouts. But you shouldn't have a problem moving a 270 size machine on a 8'6" trailer, a 270 with wide pads will still only be around 11'6" wide. If the tracks were really wore out you...
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    Mechanical Gooseneck and a new way to make it easier.

    I used to wonder why the beavertails on almost all the lowbeds up north in areas like Prince George or Edmonton were always bent & screwed up, they were obviously loading big iron over the back even though they had detachable necks. And then I took a load up there in the winter & tried to...
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    Has Richie Bros Auctioneers lost what put them ahead?

    First time bidders have to put up a $1000 deposit, refunded after the auction, don't know what that proves other than they can come up with a thousand bucks. Our local Ritchie rep came to our yard a few months ago & said they were going to a 2.5% buyers commission and explained all the wonderful...
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    Hough Loader Identification

    Possibly a H65c
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    Slow to build air

    I had one that was slow slow, put on a new compressor & still had the problem. It was the line between the compressor & wet tank under the cab, had a hole chafed but with engine running you couldn't hear it & as soon as you shut off the engine the check valve at the tank blocked flow back to the...
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    Cypress Equipment Co. Ltd, Delta, B.C.

    I can see why they might add counterweight to the 120, I moved one last year & booming down on the lowbed it would stand up on the idlers till the boom rested on the bed, thought I might be starring in a destroyed in seconds video.
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    Mack E6-350 help needed

    Do you have an air to air intercooler in front of your radiator? My guess would be you do, you should take a good look at all the connections between the turbo, air to air cooler & intake manifold as well as the cooler itself. I ran quite a few of the E9 v8 macks and it was fairly common when...
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    Skagit Iron and Steel Works, Sedro Wooley, Washington

    Here's one from our back forty, SJ2 ? not sure.
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    Here's a bit of history-still happening-FMC/KMC

    I ran a new one in 1978/1979, it was a 210 CA which I think stood for choker arch. It worked fairly well, we were in old growth, and it was impressive where they would go, I think the ground pressure was only 5 psi. The only major problems we had was the track pads bending. They had a hexagon...
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    another day in the life

    Grapple 1, we moved the yarder on 8 & used a pull truck on the steeper hills, even so Steve said he was puckered up, that Comox lake rd has a lot of lean in places & the loggers had added quite a bit of line on the yarder. We moved that 2954 with the waratah yesterday further up the lake on a...
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    another day in the life

    Here's a couple of pics of the same machines, the 3754 leaving deere/hitachi factory & the 124 Madill moving further out Comox lake yesterday.
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    Wet kit, Pony motor(suppliers)

    Yes, all of mine are electric start & I wouldn't buy one without it. The two stage pumps have a built in unloader and are factory set to automatically kick down to low volume high pressure at 650 psi, you can adjust that to 900 psi if you want, I leave mine at factory setting. So if you are...
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    Wet kit, Pony motor(suppliers)

    I have 3 lowboys (lowbeds up here in Canada) with Honda power packs. We use ours every day, heavy hauling is our business, so they get used a lot. What I have found works the best is a 13 hp Honda with a two stage hydraulic pump directly coupled. I use Barnes (I think) pumps, 16 gpm on high, 4...
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    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    When I say hydraulic neck, I'm mean the gooseneck detaches using hydraulic cylinders as opposed to a ramp style detach which uses ramps on the tailframe of the truck, and yes you can change the angle of the neck & more importantly the clearance under the trailer.
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    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    Here are a few pics of a hyd. Aspen which we switch between 8 & 9 axle, a hyd. tridem we built hauling off highway & a Aspen mechanical detach with a drop axle in the gooseneck.
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    Transporting tubo equipped machines

    We cover all exhausts facing ahead. It's not worth giving a customer anything to bitch about. We use the tapered plastic cones that blasters use to plug blastholes.
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    who has the best hydraulic gooseneck trailer?

    I can understand using a sliding link if you are retrofitting to existing deck sections, but if you are building new from the ground up I think fixed link is a better way to go. One of the purposes of the oversized solid link is lineup- you only have to be close when you back onto the pins, when...
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    Ground Bearing trailers

    GB= ground bearing meaning the trailer uses hydraulic cylinders pushing on pads which push on the ground to raise the trailer, ngb= non ground bearing the trailer gooseneck has a hinge point & uses hyd cylinders pushing between two points in the gooseneck to raise the trailer without touching...
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    who has the best hydraulic gooseneck trailer?

    Chaz, I have had good luck with a Aspen hydraulic neck, I use it in BC as a nine axle where we gross 85,000 kg (187,000 lbs) on heavyhaul routes. The neck is able to lift 70t loads to ride height even when extended for a tandem jeep. One change I did make was to throw away the single stage hyd...
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